Use these 3D printed brackets to make your AirTag or Tile tracking device more useful.

Now that you have an AirTag or Tile, you will never lose your wallet or keys, but can you definitely track more things? What about your bike, or your drone? Or what about those AirPods that have been lost?

We have summarized the end use of your AirTag or Tile and how to fix it to your treasure in the smartest way. You will need a 3D printer. However, if you don’t have one, you can still take these ideas and design your own methods to connect your tracker to your items.

If your drone is lost in a cornfield or a concrete building in a bustling city, connecting a Bluetooth tracker to your drone will save you a lot of pain and money.

The design of the 3D printed AirTag holder with two side handles is provided for free. In this example, two TPU plastic straps can be used to fix it to the DJI Mavic Pro drone.

In addition to almost no cost, the low-tech way of fixing the tracker to the drone with a plastic strap (called soft mounting) will protect your AirTag from damage by providing a little flexibility in the event of a collision.

Finally, when using AirTag's precise tracking application for practice, it only takes 5 minutes to find the lost drone in an area of ​​30m. Not bad at all.

If you live in a city and ride a bicycle, you will know how often your bicycle is stolen. In some cases, even heavy-duty bicycle locks are not enough to save your precious journey.

Fortunately, we have a way to get our bikes back.

With this Apple AirTag bike holder from Prusa Printers, you can use PLA filament to print a shell for your AirTag in 37 minutes.

The beauty of this design is that you can attach it to your bike with a simple cable tie, making it flexible enough to attach to any model of bike. Although the zipper can be removed by a thief, other boxes fixed with screws can also be used.

More importantly, you need to consider disguising your tracker so that no one knows its existence in the first place. One way this can be done is to add a small piece of bicycle reflective tape to the outer shell.

Related link: How to make your AirTag more useful

One of the ways Apple recommends using AirTag is to track your wallet, but the truth is that it is not suitable. This is where Tile Slim does better. It is not only in the shape of a credit card, but also only 2.4 mm thick.

If you want to convert AirTag into a more useful wallet tracker, please follow the steps below.

Remove the printed circuit board from the AirTag together with the battery, instead of stacking them vertically, you will reassemble the components in parallel.

Using this 3D printing design on Thingiverse, you can reinsert the AirTag components into a holder like a credit card, and then re-weld these parts together.

result? An AirTag with a thickness of only 3.2 mm can finally fit comfortably in your wallet.

If you need a satisfactory way to put AirPods and trackers neatly in one place, this 3D design on Thingiverse is for you.

This case can make room for your AirPod case, and the elongated slot can be used to slide the Tile into place. It also has an entry point at the bottom, which can be plugged into the charging cable, which is very practical to use.

Although the AirTag will not be flush with the case like the Tile, there is a design on Thingiverse that allows the AirPod case to also fix your AirTag.

It turns out that the pairing of AirTag and AirPod creates a very pleasant space age beauty by matching the round white edges of the two Apple products.

One day, our remote will have built-in Bluetooth trackers, because how many times will we lose them every week?

Before that, here is a fix.

In order to put your Apple products together, you can 3D print this remote control case to place your Apple remote and AirTag.

For owners of Tile Slim or Tile Sticker, it is even easier: just fix your tracker to the TV remote with some double-sided tape/adhesive.

This sounds like an obvious use for a Bluetooth tracker, but until someone points it out to you, you may not realize what a good solution this is.

What could be worse than losing keys, wallets or even drones? If you lose your beloved pet.

By tracking your dog or cat, you can take full advantage of AirTag and Tile. However, for this, you need a way to firmly connect the Bluetooth tracker to the collar.

Use this design as an AirTag holder on the Prusa printer and use this design for your tiles on Thingiverse.

The advantage of these designs is that the tracker will not hinder your pet because it can be comfortably attached to the skin instead of hung on the body with a key ring.

Related links: How to associate Alexa with your tiles or other tracking devices

This 3D printed case on Thingiverse was originally designed to track your dentures or retainers.

This is the perfect use for Bluetooth trackers, but we can imagine more possibilities.

Install the AirTag in the center of a slim clamshell-sized box, and you have a place to store small valuables and track them as you move.

Jewelry or medicine would be a perfect example, especially useful when traveling on vacation or traveling back and forth from the office.

As a singer, Beyoncé once said: If you like it, then you should put a ring on it. Well, now you can put a tracker on it.

Bluetooth tracking is an invention that cleverly brings together precious items that we hope will never be misplaced​​. Or more simply, just solve the good question of where the remote control goes?

This technology is here, it can track everything from our cat to our dentures very well, it only requires a little DIY help.

So if you have a 3D printer, or know someone who can help you, print a small box for your Bluetooth tracker so you can really start to make the most of this technology.

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Garling likes to explore creative uses of technology. With a musical background, she spent many years hacking the computer to make strange and beautiful sounds. When not making music, she writes some of the best DIY electronic projects.

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